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标题: LSAT6-3-25(之前只有一篇回复，没看懂) [打印本页]

作者: amywangwei 时间: 2008-7-13 17:10
标题: LSAT6-3-25(之前只有一篇回复，没看懂)

Proposals for extending the United States school year to bring it more in line with its European and Japanese counterparts are often met with the objection that curtailing the school's three-month summer vacation would violate an established United States tradition dating from the nineteenth century. However, this objection misses its mark. True, in the nineteenth century, the majority of schools closed for three months every summer, but only because they were in rural areas where successful harvests depended on children labor. If any policy could be justified by those appears to tradition. It would be the policy of determining the length of the school year according to the needs of the economy.

25. Which one of the following principles, if accepted, would provide the strongest justification for the conclusion?

(A) That a given social policy has traditionally been in force justifies maintaining that policy only if doing so does not conflict with more pressing social needs.

(B) Appeals to us own traditions cannot excuse a country from the obligation to bring its practices in line with the legitimate expectations of the rest of the world.

(C) Because appeals to tradition often serve to mask the real interests the real interests at issue, such appeals should be disregarded.

(D) Traditional principles should be discarded when they no longer serve the needs of the economy.

(E) The actual tradition embodied in a given practice can be accurately identified only by reference to the reasons that originally prompted that practice.

答案是E.

不明白原文中的结论到底是哪个？是this objection misses its mark? 还是if any policy could be justified by....（最后一句）？

E选项这句话也没怎么看懂，nn们帮忙！

作者: lurk 时间: 2008-7-13 19:40
我觉得结论就是，this objection misses its mark。整个argument都是围绕是否那个传统是能成为不缩短学期的理由展开。

E）在某项实践中的传统只有在参考原来为何提倡这个实践的原因时才能确定。

作者: stockingman 时间: 2008-7-19 13:58

conclusion: "this objection misses its mark", because "If any policy could be justified by those appears to tradition. It would be the policy of determining the length of the school year according to the needs of the economy".

i.e. the definition of tradition is changing, from "successful harvests depended on children labor" to "needs of the economy".

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